Improvement in shirt-bosoms



GEORGE HARRINGTON.

Shirt-Bosom s.

Patented June 18, 1872.

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UNITED STATES GEORGE HARRINGTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT |N SHlRT-BOSOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,974, dated June 18, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HARRINGTON, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Bosoms and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure is a front view of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a back View of the same.

My invention relates to false shirt-bosoms for gentlemens wear, made of paper, or of paper and cloth combined, or of any other suitable material which may be properly stiifened and cut out by dies and finished by machinery; and it consists of a single sheet of such material, cut out in the proper form of the shirtfront, and having two or more slits cut-therein down the front, and another sheet attached to the bosom behind said slits by means of some adhesive substance, or by stitching or otherwise.

That others skilled in the art may be able to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same.

In the drawing, B represents the shirt-bosom, cut out in the desirable form bymeans of a die, and having the two slits a a cut therein,

extending from a point near the top. down as far as may be desirable, and the front is ornamented in imitation of stitching, plaiting, &c. To the back of the bosom is attached a piece, A, which is secured to the bosom at top and bottom by means of some adhesive substance, or in any convenient manner, and the bosom is ready for use, being worn in the usual manner. Of course any desirable number of slits a may be made, and the piece A secured to the back side should be sufficiently wide to cover them.

In practice, I find the best way to cut the bosoms is to use two dies, one inside the other, and both bolted or secured together firmly, the inside one forming the die for the slits and the outside one the die for cutting out the form of the bosom, and when arranged and used in this manner both the form of the bosom and the slits therein are cut out at one and the same time.

By this construction thebosom ismuch easier to the wearer than when made in the ordinary manner without the slits, as the latter allow the parts of the bosom each side of the. slits to fold over each other, and thus the stiifness and rigidity are obviated, and the slits give more the appearance of plaits.

It is evident that the bosom may be made of any desirable material, either of cloth properly enameled and dressed, of paper, or of paper and cloth combined, and may be ornament ed in any desirable manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An imitation shirt-bosom, consisting of the part B having the slits a made therein, and having the piece A secured to the back side thereof, all substantially as described.

GEO. HARRINGTON.

Witnesses:

T. A. CURTIs, CLARENCE BUOKLAND. 

